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Relational databases, and the object-relational mapping layers which abstract them, are not particularly well suited to storing large blobs of data: images, videos, pictures, compressed files and so on. Far better than streaming megabytes of binary to the database is to instead keep a reference into a separate store, better suited to the task of […]

We use ConfigObj configuration files pretty extensively at WebMynd; it would be nice to use the ConfigParser module available in Python’s standard library, but the extra features ConfigObj has, such as lists, multi-line strings and nested sections, make it hard to say no to the richer library…

Unfortunately, TextMate doesn’t come with support for ConfigObj syntax, but the editor’s excellent Bundle Editor allowed me to fix that pretty easily.